GOSSIP.
50 days...
My mom said something about gossiping, that it is true no matter where you look at it. Gossips [or, chismis/tsismis/whateveritsspelled] are undeniable facts of what's happening around, she says.
I disagreed, of course. My point of view was, ok... it MIGHT be a fact: yet DENIABLE. Why? Usually it goes this way:
a.) You see something new [thing/person/place/event], something you haven't seen before and something you ain't expecting to see.
b.) You think of something odd within something you see, yet you can't confirm if it is true or not... resulting to self-assessment of the events, thus leading to more questions and confusing his/her/its mind.
c.) Lacking self-control and self-assessment of the event, you look for someone to talk to [kasamasabahay/kapitbahay/kapwa-katulong/anyonenearyoucantalkto] to reduce confusion/questions, the perfect ingredient for "Brainstorming" comes in... and form a certain self-conclusion which leads to what we call chismis about the thing/person/place/event.
Not excluding the fact that Chismis does evolve in time. [e.g. i remember that Domex ad - daughter:"Nay mura na raw ang Domex..." old mom:"ANO?! MINURA AKO NI DOMENG?!"]
So in my point of view, it's an incomplete information yet to be proven [called "data" in programming terms]. They might have seen a part of it, but that's not the whole picture. For example, you see a portion of a photo... for this instance, the EYE. It looks like an eye of a girl because of the feminish eyelash, but is it really a girl's eye?
How about this? Walking on the street you were wandering around, sightseeing. Obviously you saw a beautiful lady, but with broad shoulders and big muscles... and lots of leghair and varicose veins, too; you thought that the person is a pretentious gay. But what if that person really IS a natural girl and not a Newtype? [waw Gundam terms ^^,]
Now everything depends on how accurate the information and how malicious the human mind is. o.O
* Where'dya get the bottle anyway? ^^,
And, do correct me if i used the proper word for the english of chismis=gossip.
7 comments:
Small talk, Hearsay, Palaver, Chitchat.(dictionary.com, of course. I am not Ka Ernie)
As I analyze this dissertation(Nyahaha!) regarding the said "Gossip" thing, I have realized that gossip is not as effective(or by definition, a gossip) without the communication process. By reading letter C, we have a common view that it needs to be communicated, thereby becoming not simply a delusion(an incorrect interpretation of a correctly perceived object), but a form of disinformation.
Perception is one act composed of two things. The stimulus is true, like the example of the hardcased woman. We take in the data, then we process it. We process it by relating it to past experiences with similar stimuli(thanks to MEMORY, good, bad, or even faulty), thus creating a picture larger than what we had captured. This process can be hampered by either lack of other experiences although there seems to be a need to complete the image, thus creating PREJUDICE, or by imagination, which is like rearranging the relationship with other parts of our memory to make sense out of it. A need for some CLOSURE. This processing is also replicated in other situations, but the act of gossip is made by sending the conclusion through a communications channel, wherein it is discussed as though true, or accepted in such a way that it is most likely to be true.
The PROBLEM with gossip is that people tend to react to it. It could be that the receiver is accepting the conclusion as true, and by distributing the information through other channels, discrepancies with the information will occur.
Gossips are not UNDENIABLE facts, in fact, it is only a humanly processed item from a few premises, without having the complete set of necessary premises to replicate the TRUTH.
I love this post. I would respectfully ask the owner that I may repost it somewhere else.
What did you love about my senseless post?
You gave a large sense to it when you posted. Especially to that reaction thingy... but i guess reaction is either given by guilt [because it is true] or given because the person was offended of the malicious content of the gossip.
To clear the latter, maybe he/she/it's afraid that it might spread out large as a "fact" in the views of the receivers... and this happens if the person involved is protecting something of important value, especially a clean image [happens in politics]. But, sure we could always ignore and deny that if we've got nothing to hide... yet people have their own boiling points and we react just to end the "fable" if it wouldn't end in silence.
My basic point started with "Gossips might be facts, but it is still an incomplete picture." You gave too much color to it. Now the topic looks brighter. I'll be waiting for other comments.
Sure you can repost it somewhere. Wag mu lang gawing chainletter [with conditions na if you don't send this to more than 5 persons you will suffer from severe chismis for the rest of your life!]. o.O
So, did i use the right word for chismis?
YES
But if you don't repost this blog within five minutes saomething bad will happen to you. Like diarrhea.
Langya, saklap naman nun. Chain blog amf. San mu ba ipopost? Sa "Horny Eunuch" site mu o sa website [kung meron man]?
@ Ida: What about you? Anung opinions mu?
yes tsismis, however you all it isn't a total fact. katula lng ng mga sinabi mo, i agree . (wlang kwenta, pasencya na... bangag lng, hell week ngaun eh)
tsismis as demonstrated to us long ago by a professor...
classroom set-up
ang mgakakaklase ay naka-upo sa pabilog na posisyon
mgbubulong ang guro ng isang medyo mahabang pangungusap, o perhaps kwento o kahit ano lng, tapos ibubulong mo rin un sa katabi mo...
matapos ang mahaba-habang bulungan, pagkarating sa dulo, iba na ang mensahe, though nandun prin ung ibang fragments ng orihinal na mensahe.
bow...
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